What Steve Austin Was Really Like To Manage In WWE

Jim Ross has seen it all in his time in wrestling and now he’s named one beloved WWE Hall of Famer as not being easy to control behind the scenes.

Jim Ross provided the soundtrack for many of the top moments in wrestling history as he spent years at the announce desk in WWE. Ross is now lending his gravitas to AEW’s pay-per-view main events but he’s done so much more in the wrestling business.

For years, Jim Ross was one of Vince McMahon’s right-hand men as WWE’s Head of Talent Relations. Ross amassed one of the biggest and best rosters of all time but that brought its own problems with plenty of egos to manage.

Stone Cold Steve Austin Had Major Issue With WWE Star

Speaking on his Grilling JR podcast, Jim Ross lifted the lid on what it was like having to control wrestling’s biggest star Stone Cold Steve Austin as he did everything he could to keep Austin happy, a task that was not always easy:

I learned a long time ago you keep your top guys happy and that was very important in my role and who was the bigger top guy than Stone Cold? Steve was not an easy manage. He was challenging ’cause even to me he had questioned the booking at times and so forth.

I remember once, he had the same issue with Marc Mero. He didn’t want to work with Marc Mero. He didn’t think Marc Mero was up to speed and Steve wasn’t ready at that time in his career to make guys in that respect; he wanted them made before he got ’em so they could go out and have a good match and a tell a good story.

h/t Wrestling Inc.